Newseum Unveils Digital Classroom

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

The Newseum (Washington DC) has just announced a new online site for teachers.

The Digital Classroom utilizes 12 of the most popular videos (and accompanying resources) from the museum..The videos and resources are designed to bring news literacy, journalism and history to students.
The URL is http://www.newseum.org/digital-classroom/default.aspx

You will be directed to register where you will be sent a password and a Survey Monkey evaluation.

The 12 videos cover the following topics:
the First Amendment, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bias, Edward R Murrow, Getting It Right, The Digital Revolution, News Apps, The Press and Civil Rights, Running Toward Danger, Sources, Watergate,
What's News

Resources include: introductions, essential questions, links NCTE standards, links to web sources, and an extensive viewing guide.[font=Verdana]

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[Valerie Doby]

This is very exciting.  I hope they will be adding more and more every few weeks.  I really love this exchange of information it really helps you find things for the classroom that you really need but haven't found on the web yet.  We have such limited time to find so many resources.  This forum allows us to see how teachers use a resource and we can quickly evaluate if it will work for us or not.  Thanks

[Juan Liebana-Mena]

This is a great resource. The website is very well organized and there are plenty of tools  for teachers of all subjects and grade-levels. I particularly like how well structured the ED Tools section is and how you can differentiate by topic, tool, century, state, etc. I really like the resources on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. assassination and wish I had known about this resource early in the year to share some historical documents with my students. They have covers of newspaper from that exact day, an interactive timeline, lesson plans about the Letter From Birmingham Jail and many other video resources. I will definitely use this website next year when teaching the Civil Rights unit again. Thanks for sharing.

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